‘We wanted to give the passengers something to take their minds off the cold and to pass the time while waiting for a bus“. Only ‘soft’ porn (duh…), but I guess it’d warm them up a bit anyway: Bulgarian invention.
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Remodeling Europe’s churches (with a focus on Transylvania’s old ‘fortress churches’)
This is a very, very interesting article from Newsweek International about the status of old churches throughout all of Europe (with pros and cons to maintaining or converting them etc). Inter alia, they do not forget mentioning Paradiso, one of the most famous clubs in Amsterdam (and certainly one of my favourites), obtained by transforming an old church.
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In The Economist’s print edition of the 6th – 12th of Jan, a very interesting article notices the official entry of Romania and Bulgaria, “the new kids on the block”, in the European Union.
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My friend Frédèric, EU member for a longtime now :-)- but with cosmopolitan views and interests- is pointing out to me a very recent BBC article on the media culture of the two new EU members (officially, in a few hours now).
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With this imposing title I tried a few years ago to impress my professors for one of the best courses in Political Sciences taken while a student at University College Utrecht.
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